Yesterday evening’s ITV news reported that the majority of British people see David Cameron as more of a leader than Gordon Brown. This view is echoed by the Telegraph, which seems to be leading the anti-Brown campaign these days.
The Telegraph, that City of London mouthpiece, wants to get rid of the “weak kneed” Fabian, because they see Cameron as the “tough guy” who will steer Britain through the austerity needed to deal with the collapsing economy, and push imperialist provocations abroad. In an effort to bolster Cameron’s chances by questioning Brown’s capabilities when the going gets tough, the Telegraph’s Ambrose Prichard has been amazingly honest about the state of the economy, with a steady stream of doom and gloom articles in recent weeks and months.
Prichard’s honesty is echoed from time to time by other City of London mouthpieces. Jacques Attali, writing on the 3rd of January in the French financial weekly, L’Express, said “It is the whole world which seems to be going over the precipice … as if a collision of trains going at full speed was being prepared. As if, in a vortex emptying the bottom of a bathtub … [T]here is no stability in sight for the global economy.”
He went on, “Beyond the subprimes, many other debts are circulating and no one knows how the banks will be able to honor them: those of hedge funds, of monoline insurers, of LBO funds, and of holders of credit cards, which form a pyramid amounting to much more than the bank’s own funds, which would have been closed a long time ago, had the central banks not agreed to refinance them all without restraint.”
However, unlike Prichard, Attali dared to identify the link between the proceeding financial collapse and the eruption of chaos in an increasing number of nations of this planet. “That the murder of an opposition leader of a country of the South [Pakistan] would so gravely shake the Asian financial markets, and with them those of the entire world, reveals the extreme fragility of the planet.”
Attali is not the only commentator to notice a link between financial collapse and increasing chaos. In his homily for the Feast of Epiphany, the Pope said “It cannot be said that globalisation is synonymous with world order, it is the opposite. Conflicts for world order and the pillaging of [natural] resources, water, and raw materials make the work of those who strive for a just and fair world, all the more difficult.”
And in South Africa, Thabo Mbeki’s mother, wrote in a letter to the South African people, published in the Johannesburg Sunday Times. “The anarchic tendencies that have taken root in the ANC lately,” she wrote, “coupled with the blatant disrespect towards the highest office in the land, raise high suspicions of a Third Force in operation … South Africa wake up. Zemk’iinkomo Magwala Ndini!” (The cattle are being stolen, you bloody cowards!)
The question is, who is stealing the cattle?
Since the summer, it is estimated that $1.5 trillion in bank assets have been wiped off the books, and an equal amount of equity has evaporated on world stock markets. The idea that the crisis can be “solved” by hyperinflationary injections of cash is insane. If anything the crisis is only going to get worse, with a collapse of the insurance sector and a popping of the derivatives bubble.
And it is in this context that the globally increasing levels of assassination, ethnic cleansing, tribal conflict and general chaos, can be understood. None of these is a local or regional event. They are all part of a single strategy aimed at one objective: the destruction of nation states resulting in the consolidation of the raw material wealth of the planet, in the hands of City of London based private cartels – today’s British Empire.
It’s not hard to see the shape of the “invisible” British Empire if you shine a light in the right places:
- Virtually all the offshore financial centres that dominate this globalised, deregulated planet, are located in British or Dutch colonies, like the Cayman Islands, the Dutch Antilles, the Isle of Man, the Grand Bahamas, etc.
- Britain has a history of working closely with the raw materials cartels, through the private mercenary industry, particurly Executive Outcomes, Sandline, Defence Systems Ltd. These cartels already own the lion’s share of the precious metal wealth of Africa, Australia, and South America.
- British counterinsurgency methods, pioneered during the 18th and 19th Century heyday of the British East India Company, are still practiced on a global scale, by British intelligence operatives and “former” officers, now operating under private cover. In fact, it could be argued that the privatation of large sections of the Ministry of Defence and the secret services in recent years is just a reversal of the nationalisation of the British East India company and its intelligence organisation begun by Lord Shelburne.
- The Commonwealth, made up of 53 nations spanning the globe, accounting for one-fifth of the land mass of the Earth, and a very high percentage of its strategic resources and population. Though nominally an alliance of independent states, the Commonwealth was founded in the late 19th Century as a perpetuation of the British Empire.
“If you’re looking for the origins of Kenya’s ethnic tensions, look to its colonial past,” wrote Africa specialist Caroline Elkins in the Washington Post on the 6th of January. “Far from leaving behind democratic institutions and cultures, Britain bequeathed to its former colonies corrupted and corruptible governments … Added to this was a distinctly colonial view of the rule of law, which saw the British leave behind legal systems that facilitated tyranny, oppression and poverty rather than open, accountable governments. And compounding these legacies was Britain’s famous imperial policy of ‘divide and rule,’ playing one side off another, which often turned fluid groups of individuals into immutable ethnic units, much like Kenya’s Luo and Kikuyu today … We are often told that age-old tribal hatreds drive today’s conflicts in Africa. In fact, both ethnic conflict and its attendant grievances are colonial phenomena … Britain was determined to protect its economic and geopolitical interests during the decolonisation process … It’s not hard to discern similar patterns … in other former British colonies such as Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Iraq that share similar imperial pasts.”
It is the apparatus of the British Empire that has been unleashed, all around the globe, to foment chaos and provoke warfare. Global assymetric warfare, in combination with a global financial and economic collapse, is the last phase in the great game which will bring about the New World Order.